Robert Wilson Lynd

Robert Wilson Lynd was a British writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. He was born and educated in Belfast, and settled in Hampstead in London, as a contributor to many publications.

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• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

• I am a confirmed believer in blessings in disguise. I prefer them undisguised when I myself happen to be the person blessed; in fact, I can scarcely recognize a blessing in disguise except when it is bestowed upon someone else.